Field Hack: Using your iPhone as a microscope

Here’s a handy tool for the field – using your camera phone as a microscope. This video shows you how you can use a cheap ‘toy’ microscope and attach it to an iPhone case and get image magnifications of 20-45X. Of course, there shouldn’t be a reason why you wouldn’t be able to adapt the idea on any other camera phone. I could personally use it for looking at rock art pigments in situ.